On the Two Different Aspects of the Representative Method: the Method of Stratified Sampling and the Method of Purposive Selection

Abstract

Owing to the work of the International Statistical Institute,* and perhaps still more to personal achievements of Professor A.L. Bowley, the theory and the possibility of practical applications of the representative method has attracted the attention of many statisticians in different countries. Very probably this popularity of the representative method is also partly due to the general crisis, to the scarcity of money and to the necessity of carrying out statistical investigations connected with social life in a somewhat hasty way. The results are wanted in some few months, sometimes in a few weeks after the beginning of the work, and there is neither time nor money for an exhaustive research.